The Love You Make

An Insider’s Story of the Beatles

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Overview

Here is the national bestseller that Newsday called “the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives…of the oft-scrutinized group.” In The Love You Make, Peter Brown, a close friend of and business manager for the band—and the best man at John and Yoko’s wedding—presents a complete look at the dramatic offstage odyssey of the four lads from Liverpool who established the greatest music phenomenon of the twentieth century. Written with the full cooperation of each of the group’s members and their intimates, this book tells the inside story of the music and the madness, the feuds and the drugs, the marriages and the affairs—from the greatest heights to the self-destructive depths of the Fab Four.

In-depth and definitive, The Love You Make is an astonishing account of four men who transformed the way a whole generation of young people thought and lived. It reigns as the most comprehensive, revealing biography available of John, Paul, George, and Ringo.

Praise

“The best backstage memoir yet of the most amazing musical phenomenon of our times.”—The Washington Post Book World

“The definitive book on the Beatles.”—New York Post

“Beatles aficionados will be amazed by the wealth of detail, the questions answered, and the tale of what happened to the Beatles, their women, their children, and their friends.”—Liz Smith, New York Daily News

“Leaves the reader tearing through it as though one didn’t know how the story ended.”—San Francisco Examiner

“The definitive book on the world’s greatest rock group…tells the truth with surprisingly little varnish.”—Chicago Tribune

“A dramatically good story….Peter Brown catches us with the headiness of it all.”—Publishers Weekly

Table of Contents

ForewordIntroduction

Chapter One

Chapter TwoThe Scene at the "Jac" · Stu Sutcliffe · Baby George Harrison Joins the Beat Scene · Johnny and the Moondogs on the Circuit · Hamburg, a Sexual Disneyland · Johnny and the Moondogs Become the Beatles · Return to Liverpool and a New Professionalism

Chapter NineKenwood · Ringo Becomes a Daddy · Help and the Great Tax Dodge · Have a Sugar Cube · NEMS Branches Out · The Saville Theater · Brian’s Discontent: Enter Dizz · The Beatles at the Palace

Chapter TenAunt Mimi Gets a House · The Second American Tour · The L.A. Acid Trip · Dizz Gets a Car

Chapter ElevenSplitting Up the Pie · From Black and White to Color: Rubber Soul and Revolver · Tokyo and Manila: Terror on the Road · Brian’s Balance Tips · The "Bigger than Jesus" Scandal · The Beatles’ Third American National Tour · Dizz Gillespie’s Coup de Grace

Chapter FourteenThe Magical Mystery Tour · The Seeds of Apple · From Here to the Himalayas: The Untold Story of Rishikesh · Escape from India · John’s Confession D’Amour

Chapter FifteenYoko in the Limelight · A Messy Divorce · John and Yoko Retreat: The Heroin Days · Paul McCartney’s Black and White Minstrel Show · Jane Asher Makes a Nasty Discovery · The Apple Pie: A Piece for Everyone · The White Album

Chapter SixteenTargets of the People: John and Yoko on the Cross · Two Virgins · Won’t You Please Let It Be

Chapter SeventeenEastman and Eastman Meet the Beatles · Allen Klein Meets the Beatles and Eastman and Eastman · The NEMS Battle · The Setup of Pattie and George · John and Yoko’s Quickie Wedding · Peace: The Amsterdam Bed-in · A Call to Arms: The Northern Songs Battle · The Only Winner Is Klein

Chapter EighteenThe Power of Publicity: John and Yoko Go Public · "Cold Turkey" · Toronto Rock and Roll Festival · John Off the Edge · In Pursuit of Peace and Kyoko in Denmark · John Discovers Dr. Janov · John and Yoko Discover L.A. · Paul Is Dead but Alive and Well in Scotland · McCartney, Abbey Road and Let It Be · And in the End

Chapter NineteenGeorge, Ringo, and Paul—From Then Till Now

Chapter TwentyThe Search for Kyoko · John and Yoko Discover New York · John and the White House Follies · Uncle Sam Wants You Out · Paranoia Runs Deep · The L.A. Lost Weekend: 18 Months in Hell · Together Again

Chapter Twenty-OneThe Househusband Years: John as a Father · The Dakota Hermitage · The Big Comeback: Starting Over · Mark David Chapman · The Spirit of Yoko Ono